Faith Filled Family Magazine September 2016 | Page 101
sun up to sun down.Everyone around you says
you are gonna burn out if you are not careful
but you don’t listen. You go year after year and
then one day you wake up in the hospital with
a heart attack and no one there to see you. You
wonder what happened to all your friends but
never realize that you pushed them away years
ago.Maybe, you are an underachiever because
of all the abuse you taken as a child. So many
bad things happen so you figure why try because
things never work out for you anyways.You do the
least amount of work just to get by. You never go
above and beyond on anything. You may even
party every weekend because you feel that fun
is where your happiness is since you had such a
destructive childhood. You are doing everything
you can to destroy your life without even knowing
it, all because you believe your life is not worth
anything.
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Life Baggage: This is baggage everyone
gets. It’s just that life happens. Yes we have
good times too but there are just as many bad
it anymore.
Now you even start doing the hurting in relationships becaus e you feel that you will get
them before they get you. Each time something
bad happens in a relationship, you use that as
a reason to become more cold and hard. Your
heart has become so hardened that no one can
break through.
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Parental Baggage: There is no such thing
as a perfect parent. We all learn and make
so many mistakes as we are raising kids but you
may have been abandoned or had parents that
just didn’t care. Maybe they beat you or maybe
they were just too hard on you and expected
perfection even though there is no such thing.
High expectations can cause you to see everything as that. You have been pushed all your life
that when you get in the real world, you don’t
know how to shut that off.
You spend your time overachieving because
that is all you know. You get up and work from